We had given no thought as to what we might do after leaving school except that by this stage we did not want to do the same thing as each other.

All through this very readable memoir run additional themes - his love of music, hence the book's title and the chapter headings, the importance of family and finally, in partnership with his wife - Jocelyn, an abiding passion for horse racing. When Broughton, who was back at Anfield on Monday night to watch Liverpool defeat Everton 2-0, was aiming to acquire Chelsea last summer he was doing so alongside a consortia featuring former London 2012 Olympics chief Lord Sebastian Coe and the US sports investment firm Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment (HBSE), owner of sports teams such as the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers and NHL's New Jersey Devils, whose co-founders Josh Harris and David Blitzer both hold an 18 per cent stake each in Crystal Palace. Initially the doctors had managed to save the leg but after a few months release, it recurred, and he had it amputated above the knee.With only 40 yards to go and five lengths clear and the crowd going mad waving their hats in the air for its owner the Queen Mother, Devon Loch suddenly belly-flopped and slid to a halt. Sure, they had a board majority, but directors can normally only recommend a deal to shareholders, which, as half-each owners of Liverpool, the American pair could surely reject. Viv went on to a Central School and we were expecting to do the same after the 11 Plus exam as our form positions did not suggest we would be amongst the small number expected to get into Grammar School.

He repeated what he has said for a week, that the club's American owners committed "flagrant abuses of undertakings" when they tried to sack Christian Purslow, Liverpool's managing director, and Ian Ayre, the commercial director, and oppose the board's agreed sale to New England Sports Ventures. Sir Martin Faulkner Broughton (born 15 April 1947) [1] is a British businessman and deputy chairman of International Airlines Group. Back in November, it was revealed that FSG, who have been Liverpool's owners since October 2010, are willing to listen to what is on offer and have instructed two major US banks in Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to see what offers are potentially on the table, having produced a sales presentation for serious interested parties. This is not the exit Hicks and Gillett foresaw when they bought into Liverpool and the Premier League's expanding TV revenues which Hicks, in particular, spoke of so eagerly at the time. So far Jim Ratcliffe, the British billionaire owner of petrochemicals giant INEOS, is the only confirmed bidder.Broughton revealed what we had not been told earlier: he had not taken on the job of becoming Liverpool's chairman, getting the club sold and relieved of its appalling debt, without having the power he required. He doesn’t hold back in his criticism of certain political leaders and the backstories to the sale of liverpool and chelsea are pretty nuts in terms of the media and all the money involved.

Realising that he wanted to see the world, he became a travelling auditor for the tobacco giant BAT. His description of being on the frontline against one of the City's bitterest takeover battles makes for a fascinating read. My own sense from speaking with Amanda Staveley in Newcastle is they see the Liverpool process of sensible data analytical acquisition as the right way forward,” he explains. That loss, and the sale of their shares in the club for nothing rather than the fat profit they envisaged, has been wrought by Broughton, the blue-chip chairman who kept his counsel for months, then came out fighting so defiantly last week. Chief executives such as Ivan Gazidis, at Arsenal, seem to understand what a football club is, that it is not "just a business like any other", the spivvy Thatcherite philistinism which dominated through the 1990s.Martin recounts his modest start at the very bottom of the commercial ladder and, with his acute accountant’s brain and a desire to see the world, his subsequent rise to some of the most prestigious and demanding boardrooms in the country and internationally – such as BAT (overseeing period of great controversy and change in the tobacco industry), British Airways (including merging into International Airlines Group), and presidency of the Confederation of British Industry. Few can have had as interesting or varied a career as Sir Martin Broughton – a very British businessman. Broughton said the fact the judge, Mr Justice Floyd, agreed, ruling that Hicks and Gillett committed "the clearest possible breach" of their agreement with Royal Bank of Scotland, had won Broughton, Purslow and Ayre their case.

Purslow observed, as many serious business people do, that the deals which are concluded are usually ones nobody talked publicly about beforehand. But we do want to see going forward is proper deliverable financial fair play, which makes everybody play within a kind of sensible set of goals and then it’s who can deliver best within those rules and who can just splash out more money.I remember we backed the winner of the last race ridden by the Aussie Ron Hutchinson which probably sucked us further in to the sport. It was very interesting but frustratingly they never sent us the results, so we still don’t know the answer. When i think back to my childhood, I remember a happy, innocent time spent largely playing with my identical twin brother, Steve. So it wasn't that we have got an exit plan, it was more that testing the markets to see what is out there.